https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr Vocabulary en-us 2018-09-18 15:48:58 UTC 2026-01-19 14:03:53 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Thunder.png childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/282993265 The system of rules and the people who make and administer them is known as a government.]]> 2018-09-18 15:51:07 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/282993265 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/282995360 A constitution is a set of rules that guides how a country, state, or other political organization works. ]]> 2018-09-18 15:53:59 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/282995360 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/282998462 settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions. ]]> 2018-09-18 15:58:00 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/282998462 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/283029837  making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it; "the ratification of the treaty"; "confirmation of the appointment" Similar Words: confirmation.]]> 2018-09-18 16:47:11 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/283029837 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/283031671 The Bill of Rights are the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution.]]> 2018-09-18 16:49:35 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/283031671 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/283032800 the act of amending or correcting. a statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document ]]> 2018-09-18 16:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/283032800 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/283034093 The system of checks and balances is used to keep the government from getting too powerful in one branch. For example, the Executive Branch can veto bills from the Legislative Branch, but the Legislative Branch can override the veto.]]> 2018-09-18 16:53:04 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/283034093 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/294494306 The Algonquian are one of the most populous and widespread North American native language groups. Today, thousands of individuals identify with various Algonquian peoples.]]> 2018-10-18 16:59:13 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/294494306 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/294495561 Ancient empires may refer to a number of empires in ancient history. ]]> 2018-10-18 17:01:18 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/294495561 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/296015329 The Iroquois or Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse) are a historically powerful northeast Native American confederacy.]]> 2018-10-23 15:30:19 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/296015329 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/296017443 A kiva is a room used by Puebloans for religious rituals and political meetings, many of them associated with the kachina belief system.]]> 2018-10-23 15:33:52 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/296017443 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/296018668 Longhouses were homes that the Native Americans called Iroquois built and lived in.]]> 2018-10-23 15:35:47 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/296018668 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/296020202 Natural resources are resources that exist without actions of humankind. This includes all valued characteristics such as magnetic, gravitational, electrical properties and forces etc.]]> 2018-10-23 15:38:01 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/296020202 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/296021782 Pueblo refers to communities of Native Americans, both in the present and in ancient times.]]> 2018-10-23 15:40:07 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/296021782 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/296022965 A tipi is a cone-shaped tent, traditionally made of animal skins upon wooden poles.]]> 2018-10-23 15:41:47 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/296022965 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/296023615 A totem is a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe.]]> 2018-10-23 15:42:43 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/296023615 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/309851374 An instrument formerly used to make astronomical measurements, typically of the altitudes of celestial bodies, and in navigation for calculating latitude, before the development of the sextant.]]> 2018-11-30 16:26:55 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/309851374 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/309852957 The caravel was a small, highly maneuverable sailing ship developed in the 15th century by the Portuguese to explore along the West African coast and into the Atlantic Ocean. The lateen sails gave it speed and the capacity for sailing windward.]]> 2018-11-30 16:29:55 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/309852957 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/309853867 Circumnavigation is the complete navigation around an entire island, continent, or astronomical body. The first known circumnavigation of Earth was the Magellan-Elcano expedition, which sailed from Seville, Spain in 1519 and returned in 1522, after crossing the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. ]]> 2018-11-30 16:31:36 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/309853867 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/309855319 A compass is an instrument used for navigation and orientation that shows direction relative to the geographic cardinal directions. Usually, a diagram called a compass rose shows the directions north, south, east, and west on the compass face as abbreviated initials.]]> 2018-11-30 16:34:12 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/309855319 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/309856144 Conquistadors is a term used to refer to the soldiers and explorers of the Spanish Empire or the Portuguese Empire in a general sense. During the Age of Discovery, conquistadors sailed beyond Europe to the Americas, Oceania, Africa, and Asia, conquering territory and opening trade routes.]]> 2018-11-30 16:35:45 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/309856144 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/309857624 A journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose, especially that of exploration, scientific research, or war.]]> 2018-11-30 16:38:29 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/309857624 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/309862144 A lateen or latin-rig is a triangular sail set on a long yard mounted at an angle on the mast, and running in a fore-and-aft direction. Dating back to Roman navigation, the lateen became the favorite sail of the Age of Discovery, mainly because it allows a boat to tack "against the wind."]]> 2018-11-30 16:46:00 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/309862144 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/309864162 An open rebellion against the proper authorities, especially by soldiers or sailors against their officers.]]> 2018-11-30 16:49:17 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/309864162 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/309865105 The Northwest Passage is, from the European and northern Atlantic point of view, the sea route to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.]]> 2018-11-30 16:50:55 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/309865105 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/309866070 A person chosen, named, or honored as a special guardian, protector, or supporter a patron of the arts.]]> 2018-11-30 16:52:34 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/309866070 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/309866981 An instrument used for taking angular measurements of altitude in astronomy and navigation, typically consisting of a graduated quarter circle and a sighting mechanism.]]> 2018-11-30 16:54:09 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/309866981 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/318447198 Conquistadors is a term used to refer to the soldiers and explorers of the Spanish Empire or the Portuguese Empire in a general sense. During the Age of Discovery, conquistadors sailed beyond Europe to the Americas, Oceania, Africa, and Asia, conquering territory and opening trade routes.]]> 2019-01-08 17:43:41 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/318447198 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/318448596 The encomienda was the system that the Spanish government used to try to control Native Americans in the American colonies in the 1500s. Through this system the Spanish crown granted a certain number of Native Americans in a particular area to Spanish conquistadors, soldiers, or other officials.]]> 2019-01-08 17:45:57 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/318448596 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/318451456 The term environment refers to the physical surroundings in which plants, animals, and humans live. Different locations have different environments. These differences are based on the soil, climate, and other living things that are located at each location.]]> 2019-01-08 17:50:08 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/318451456 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/318453452 An epidemic is an outbreak of an infectious disease that affects an unusually large number of people and lasts for a long time. Outbreaks become epidemics when they spread beyond the local population to a wider geographic area.]]> 2019-01-08 17:53:12 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/318453452 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/318455562 An indentured servant is a worker who agrees to provide a service for a specified time in return for some form of payment. For example, a young man wishing to learn the cobbler’s trade might indenture himself as an apprentice to an experienced cobbler for three years. ]]> 2019-01-08 17:56:22 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/318455562 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/318456773 The Middle Passage was a term used to describe the middle part of an enslaved person’s journey from Africa to the Americas. The first part of the journey was from the Africans’ home villages to the west coast of Africa, where the captives were kept locked up after being kidnapped.]]> 2019-01-08 17:58:09 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/318456773 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/318458635 A mission is an organized effort by Christians to spread their religious faith. In the 1600s and 1700s, the term was used to described settlements in North America that were established by Spanish Catholic priests to spread their religion to Native Americans. The majority of the missions that the Spanish established were in what is now the southwestern United States, from Texas to California.]]> 2019-01-08 18:01:05 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/318458635 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/318459858 Trade is the exchange of goods and services by sale or barter. It is driven both by the need for resources and by the amount of resources that a trader has on hand. Archaeologists studying prehistoric sites have found artifacts indicating that trade took place early on in human history.]]> 2019-01-08 18:02:59 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/318459858 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/318461213 The forced migration of millions of captured and enslaved people from Africa to the Americas is known as the transatlantic slave trade. The slave trade began in the late 1400s. Europeans initially traded in the Caribbean and then began trading with American colonies.]]> 2019-01-08 18:05:22 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/318461213 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/319326032 The triangular trade was a series of transatlantic trade routes that—when plotted on a map—roughly resembled triangles. Traders used one of these trade routes to ship enslaved Africans to the Americas. Typically a ship full of manufactured goods would set sail from a European port headed for the west coast of Africa.]]> 2019-01-10 16:26:54 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/319326032 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/319326927 Vaquero is the Spanish word for a cattle herder, and vaqueros in Mexico were the first cowboys in North America. Vaqueros herded cattle in Mexico and brought longhorn cattle north to what is now Texas in the 1860s, where the cattle were left to roam free. Vaqueros developed the system of letting cattle graze on the open range and then herding and branding the cattle to bring them to ranches.]]> 2019-01-10 16:28:20 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/319326927 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/329323905 The Church of England has been the official church in England for about 450 years.]]> 2019-02-08 17:52:05 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/329323905 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/329328074 a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.]]> 2019-02-08 17:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/329328074 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/329329639 a raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold, such as copper or coffee.]]> 2019-02-08 18:01:40 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/329329639 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/329330650 Dutch West India Company was a chartered company of Dutch merchants as well as foreign investors.]]> 2019-02-08 18:03:09 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/329330650 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330420541 A joint-stock company is a business entity in which shares of the company's stock can be bought and sold by shareholders. Each shareholder owns company stock in proportion, evidenced by their shares. Shareholders are able to transfer their shares to others without any effects to the continued existence of the company.]]> 2019-02-12 16:34:02 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330420541 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330421716 The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century around the Massachusetts Bay, the northernmost of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay.]]> 2019-02-12 16:35:59 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330421716 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330423121 The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the male passengers of the Mayflower, consisting of separatist Puritans, adventurers, and tradesmen. The Puritans were fleeing from religious persecution by King James of England.]]> 2019-02-12 16:38:07 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330423121 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330424392 Mercantilism is a national economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports of a nation.]]> 2019-02-12 16:40:04 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330424392 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330425560 The Pilgrims or Pilgrim Fathers were the first English settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts.]]> 2019-02-12 16:41:44 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330425560 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330426844 Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively between 800 million]]> 2019-02-12 16:43:35 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330426844 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330428999 Grains, such as corn, wheat, and rice, are the world's most popular food crops. In fact, these crops are often the basis for food staples. A food staple is a food that makes up the dominant part of a population's diet.]]> 2019-02-12 16:46:32 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330428999 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330429966 The Virginia Company was a joint stock company that was approved by King James I to create new settlements in the colony of Virginia. A joint stock company is a business organization with which investors pooled money in order to purchase stock in a company.]]> 2019-02-12 16:47:52 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330429966 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330431480 Anne Hutchinson was an influential Puritan spiritual leader in colonial Massachusetts who challenged the male-dominated religious authorities of the time.]]> 2019-02-12 16:50:10 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330431480 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330432424 John Rolfe arrived in Jamestown along with 150 other settlers in 1610, as part of a new charter organized by the Virginia Company. He began experimenting with growing tobacco, eventually using seeds grown in the West Indies to develop Virginia’s first profitable export.]]> 2019-02-12 16:51:46 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330432424 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330433480 Peter Stuyvesant, Dutch Petrus Stuyvesant, (born c. 1592, Scherpenzeel, Friesland, Netherlands—died February 1672, near New York, New York [U.S.]), Dutch colonial governor who tried to resist the English seizure of New York.]]> 2019-02-12 16:53:27 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330433480 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330434717 Roger Williams was a Puritan minister, theologian, and author who founded the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom, separation of church and state, and fair dealings with American Indians, and he was one of the first abolitionists.]]> 2019-02-12 16:55:27 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330434717 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330435761 Separatist. religion. Alternative Title: Independents. Separatist, also called Independent, any of the English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who wished to separate from the perceived corruption of the Church of England and form independent local churches.]]> 2019-02-12 16:56:59 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330435761 childsc_26 https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330436633 Thomas Hooker was a prominent Puritan colonial leader, who founded the Colony of Connecticut after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts. He was known as an outstanding speaker and an advocate of universal Christian suffrage.]]> 2019-02-12 16:58:33 UTC https://padlet.com/childsc_26/w6xnw66s05sr/wish/330436633